Saturday, October 18, 2008

When humanity thought that it was finished, for God it was only the begining


How great are your works oh my lord, we can never grasp your majesty but you showed us a simple and yet courageous way to follow JESUS and imitate him. when humanity thought that it was finished, it is there when you were bringing your work to perfection, Jesus bowed his head for us, as we said no to you Lord with our sin, Jesus perfected our image Lord so that we may be made worthy in front of you.
Thank you my Lord and my God.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Marriage comes from God

Many times our lady of borg in-nadur spoke about the disaster that our islands enter in if we accept divorce. we must always say 'no' to divorce.









let us reflect on the sacredness of marriage :

"a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh" (Genesis 2: 24). Scripture teaches that God had established marriage.




The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1601 teaches that Marriage is a covenant "by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership for the whole of life.



The Second Vatican Council (see Church in the Modern World, #48). reminds us that the marriage covenant exists not only for the good of the partners and their children, but also for the good of the Church and the good of society at large.





A CHRISTIAN WEDDING IS ALSO AN ECCLESIAL EVENT THE CCC EXPLAINS THIS CLEARLY:
"In the Latin Rite the celebration of marriage between two Catholic faithful normally takes place during Holy Mass, because of the connection of all the sacraments with the Paschal mystery of Christ. In the Eucharist the memorial of the New Covenant is realized, the New Covenant in which Christ has united himself forever to the Church, his beloved bride for whom he gave himself up. It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but 'one body' in Christ" (Catechism, #1 621).





MARRIAGE IS ALSO A MIRROR OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH


"'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church" (Ephesians 5:31-32).



"God's love for us can never end in divorce. God is faithful even if we are not. The Church desires that even if one of the partners of a marriage is faithless to the marriage bond, the other, by remaining faithful, gives a powerful witness to the community of the way God loves us". [Sacrament of Marriage:Sign of Faithful Love by Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., Th.D.]



let us pray: Father in the name of your son Jesus help us to truly safeguard our society from this disease of divorce in penetrating our island, help us to remain strong when facing this type of crisis in our society. your word remains forever the same, it never expires as where it touches it refreshes, because you are the living water.